School-based mental health services delivered by school personnel can help reduce mental health problems in elementary school children, finds a meta-analysis in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Researchers analyzed 43 controlled trials involving...

Previous research has found that poor children in the United States hear as many as 30 million fewer words by age 4 than wealthier children do, contributing to a socioeconomic status (SES) achievement gap. Now, a study in Psychological...

Supportive relationships in adulthood can help mitigate the long-term consequences of being abused as a child, finds a study in Nature Human Behaviour. Previous research has found that abused children are more likely to suffer from physical maladies including...